Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens
and their farm team manage 1300 acres of organic grain crops and processing
vegetables on rolling, glacially derived soils distributed between Penn
Yan and Geneva, New York, in the Finger Lakes region. They are also innovators
in a wide range of weed management techniques and machinery, and organizers
of a successful, home-grown farmer to farmer extension and networking
effort, New York Certified Organic. They stress that the success of the
organic grain farmers through the region lies in collaboration and in
generating a critical mass for marketing and sharing of information.